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Come See SWHS Improv/Acting Team Perform!

State Champion Southwest High School Destination Imagination Team invites you to a Performance Open House

Friday, May 8
7:00-8:30 p.m.
Linden Hills Park (3100 W 43rd St)

Come see the winning performance of the team “Garden and Sock”
at 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m.
Light refreshments will be served
No charge/donations gladly accepted

The story: This group of senior SWHS students won 1st place at the State Destination Imagination (DI) tournament and they are off to the international Global Finals competition to be held in Knoxville, TN from May 20-23, 2015. The group includes Kaj Anders MacLeod, Seth Colbert-Pollack, Hannah FitzGerald, Nathaniel Larson, Piper Shatz-Akin and Becca Tincher--all seniors at Southwest High School. This group of students competed in DI together for five years (grades 4-8) and went to Globals in 8th grade. They reunited this year to compete one last time in the program.

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For more information about the team see the team’s Indiegogo website at:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-garden-and-sock-perform-at-global-finals

What is Destination Imagination? DI is an international program that inspires students to become the next generation of innovators and leaders. DI teaches the creative process from imagination to innovation extending learning and development of life skills far beyond the classroom, in a supportive and exciting team atmosphere.
For more information about DI in Minnesota see: http://www.mndi.org/

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Come support this winning Southwest team and learn more about Destination Imagination.

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